114: Chapter 114 Cloud Pattern Black Gold

"A cosmic rarity, cloud-patterned black gold," the system said flatly.

Su Fan was taken aback. "System, my knowledge might not be as vast as yours, but I'm not colorblind. This material is clearly silver-white."

"What you see is not necessarily the truth," the system replied calmly.

Even though the system's tone was indifferent, Su Fan couldn't help but feel it was just showing off.

"Fine, you're always right."

"What exactly does cloud-patterned black gold do?" Su Fan continued to inquire.

"cloud-patterned black gold is related to dark matter. Other details cannot be disclosed due to the host's insufficient level. Please work hard to raise your civilization level before asking again."

Su Fan: "..."

"Then how am I supposed to find this precious material in the future?"

"If any is nearby, I will provide a prompt," the system said flatly.

"Alright then." Su Fan felt a bit helpless.

While Su Fan was communicating with the system, the robot had already carefully excavated a piece of cloud-patterned black gold about the size of a human head.

"Su Fan, the material has been dug out. You have to tell me what this is this time," the Great Elder said with a smile.

"This is a cosmic rarity. Once the Xia Country's civilization level is higher, it will serve an important purpose," Su Fan explained with a smile.

The Great Elder's eyes lit up. "I didn't expect that a trip around Jupiter would yield such a rare treasure."

Su Fan smiled and had Red Queen control the robot to hold the cloud-patterned black gold. Then, a beam of golden light suddenly shot out from the bottom of the Tianyuan Mothership.

The beam enveloped the robot, which then began to rise rapidly, soon entering the ship through the hatch at the bottom.

"System, does this piece of cloud-patterned black gold emit radiation? Can humans touch it directly?"

"No radiation. Direct contact is possible," the system replied, its words as precious as gold.

"That's good." Su Fan breathed a sigh of relief. "Besides this piece, is there any more cloud-patterned black gold below?"

"No," the system answered.

The cloud-patterned black gold was quickly delivered to the captain's quarters by the robot, and Su Fan's group immediately gathered around it.

Since they were all Androids anyway, they weren't worried about radiation.

Su Fan grabbed the cloud-patterned black gold with his hand and picked it up without much effort at all.

"This material is so light!" Su Fan was surprised. "It feels like I'm holding a piece of sponge."

"Daddy, Daddy, I want to hold it too!" Su Mingxia reached out his small hands, eager to take a turn.

"Here—for you!" Su Fan handed the cloud-patterned black gold to his son.

Su Mingxia took the cloud-patterned black gold, played with it for a moment, and then lost interest.

Children were like that; they were curious about new things, but if they found them boring, they'd just set them aside, completely losing interest.

The Great Elder took the cloud-patterned black gold and examined it closely. However, he wasn't a researcher and couldn't discover anything; he was merely driven by curiosity.

Finally, after the piece of cloud-patterned black gold had passed through everyone's hands, Su Fan stowed it away in a secret room.

"Red Queen, bring up the mechanical equipment from below, then fly around Jupiter close to the metallic hydrogen surface," Su Fan ordered.

He intended to see if there were any more similar cosmic rarities. After all, the system had said it would provide a prompt if there were.

"Yes! Commander-in-Chief Su!" Red Queen said sweetly.

Next, the Tianyuan Mothership began its low-altitude flight around Jupiter.

"Prompt: Cosmic rarity cloud-patterned black gold detected three kilometers underground ahead."

"Prompt: Cosmic rarity cloud-patterned black gold detected ten thousand meters underground to the front-left."

...

In this manner, Su Fan excavated a total of five pieces of cloud-patterned black gold. Aside from the first piece which was the size of a human head, the largest of the other four was only the size of a fist, and the smallest was only the size of a walnut.

"System, why are they so small?" Su Fan complained.

"This is a cosmic rarity. Do you think it's just iron ore?" the system replied coldly.

"Alright..." Su Fan felt helpless, but it made sense. From the name alone, one could tell that cosmic rarities wouldn't be abundant.

"Red Queen, turn the ship around. It's time to leave Jupiter!" Su Fan ordered. "Let's go check out some of Jupiter's other moons."

"Yes!"

The Tianyuan Mothership had already circled Jupiter several times, and the system had confirmed that there were no more cosmic rarities on Jupiter.

Su Fan held some expectations for this trip to Jupiter's moons, as there were so many of them.

Jupiter has a total of 92 moons, making it the planet with the highest number of satellites in the Solar System.

Although there were many moons, Su Fan had originally planned to only visit the famous ones.

But now that he had discovered such a valuable material as a cosmic rarity in the universe, he definitely had to explore them one by one.

What was the ultimate goal of conquering the Lizardman Civilization?

To plunder resources, of course.

In the universe, only by possessing enough resources can one develop faster and better.

First, the tianyuan arrived at Io.

Io is at an average distance of 420,000 kilometers from Jupiter. It is a planet entirely covered in volcanoes, with various large and small volcanoes spread across its entire surface.

Su Fan rode the Tianyuan Mothership, rotating rapidly close to the surface of Io.

However, the system did not provide any prompts in the end.

Su Fan wasn't discouraged and soon took the ship to Europa.

Europa is a very famous moon. According to the speculations of former Blue Star scientists, this moon might have a thick outer ice shell, and beneath that ice shell, there might be liquid water.

Upon arriving at Europa, Su Fan did not immediately order the tianyuan to orbit the moon. Instead, he landed the ship on a smooth patch of ice.

Europa is a giant ice ball, its surface composed entirely of ice.

"Red Queen, send out the ground-drilling engineering machinery. Drill through the ice below; I want to see if there really is liquid water beneath the ice shell," Su Fan ordered.

"Yes!"

Soon, a massive engineering vehicle drove out from the tianyuan's cargo hold.

After determining the location, the drilling operation began!

The drilling vehicle bored directly through the ice, disappearing from the surface and proceeding rapidly downward.

Inside the ship, the large screen displayed real-time footage from the front of the drilling vehicle.

After some time, the image jolted as the vehicle broke through the thick ice and emerged into water.

"There really is liquid water!" Su Fan was somewhat excited.

According to information from the drilling vehicle's sensors, this wasn't a liquid substance like liquid methane, but genuine liquid water.

"Red Queen, have the drilling vehicle return and send an underwater robot capable of scientific research in water," Su Fan said with a smile.

Red Queen immediately complied.

The drilling vehicle soon returned to the surface. Two underwater robots were already waiting at the mouth of the ice hole. As soon as the drilling vehicle emerged, they immediately jumped into the hole.

Splash!

The two robots successfully entered the water.

"Check for signs of life in the water." Su Fan ordered Red Queen, telling her to activate the underwater robots' life detection devices.

"Beep beep beep beep beep beep!" As soon as the life detection device was turned on, a piercing red alarm immediately rang out!

"Life detection device has discovered unknown life!" Red Queen said seriously.